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Tomorrow [Update: a problem with the air conditioning has delayed the opening, per Feedbag], Michael Psilakis reopens the former Kefi space under the name Gus & Gabriel Gastropub (Donatella Arpaia is not involved this time around, since she's writing a book and focusing on other projects). Take your very first look at the menu and you’ll see it’s a veritable ne plus ultra of comfort food. Meatballs, hot dogs, meatloaf, fried chicken, grilled cheese, chili — add to all that a list of 70 whiskeys and 10 beers on tap, and you can be dead certain Guy Fieri is going to be throwing down here every time he’s in town. (That said, the dining room opens at 5 p.m. and closes relatively early for a gastropub — 10 p.m. from Sunday through Tuesday, 11 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, and midnight on Fridays and Saturdays — reservations and credit cards are not accepted.) Psilakis dreamed all this up by touring spots like T.G.I. Friday's (that’s right, T.G.I. Friday's) with his wife and by cooking at home with his four-year-old son Gabriel (Gus is Psilakis's father). And there’s just a hint of T.G.I. Friday's in the redesign of Kefi’s space, too — there’s a random coat of armor and some crisscrossed oars on the wall. Here now, the menu.